Single-player games like Perception
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Perception, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
Single-player alternative to Perception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perception.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.
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Layers of Fear 2 (2019)
Single-player alternative to Perception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perception.
A first‑person psychological horror game set on a haunted ocean liner. As an actor summoned by an unorthodox director, you’ll confront twisted memories from your past and learn the price of achieving the perfect performance.
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Never Again
Single-player alternative to Perception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perception.
Never Again - Horror/first-person Quest. The main essence of the game is research locations and puzzles, plunging in the dramatic story of a little girl suffering from asthma.
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Neverending Nightmares
Single-player alternative to Perception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perception.
Experience true psychological horror as you explore nightmares inspired by the creator's struggles with depression and OCD. The defenseless protagonist must avoid monstrous manifestations of what haunts his subconscious in his quest to wake up into reality.
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Still Wakes the Deep
Single-player alternative to Perception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perception.
1975. Disaster strikes the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. Navigate the collapsing rig to save your crew from an otherworldly horror on the edge of all logic and reality in this 3x BAFTA Games Award-winning narrative horror experience.
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Perception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perception.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
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Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Perception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perception.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
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ROUTINE
Single-player alternative to Perception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perception.
ROUTINE is a First Person Sci-Fi Horror set on an abandoned lunar base designed around an 80s vision of the future. Explore and investigate your surroundings as you survive against unknown threats.
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Romancelvania
Single-player alternative to Perception — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Perception.
Bite into Romancelvania, a darkly comic genre mashup, combining side-scrolling action and tongue-in-cheek romance into one completely absurd and unforgettable adventure.